TheRegister reports about a piracy raid in the UK targetting pirates who where using 31 DVD burners to make copies of Spider Man and Star Wars: Episode II:
The illegal copies of the movies were made in a pirate DVD-R factory, after they were downloaded from the Internet. |
The raid was welcomed by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which is calling for tougher enforcement measures to combat piracy in general.
This summer the European Union is o issue an Enforcement Directive, giving teeth to the controversial European Union Copyright Directive.
At a piracy seminar in Madrid this week, representatives of the European film, music, business and interactive leisure software sectors jointly called for "strong legal remedies to fight the epidemic of piracy".
Lisa Peets, legal counsel for the BSA Europe, referring to the BSA's statistic that one third of software packages in use are illegal, said it needed "more effective search and seizure" rules in its fight against piracy.
TheRegister has also more information on the European Uninion Copyright Directive. Read the entire article here.
Source: Theregister.co.uk
